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By Michael Oberschneider, Psy.D. Dear Dr. Mike, I have been divorced for 18 months. It wasn’t an ugly split, and my ex-husband and I share custody of the children. He gets them three consecutive days, and I get them four consecutive days. The kids, ages 5 and 8, at first thought it was fun to…
By Michael Oberschneider, Psy.D. With the start of the school year just weeks away, so many children are beginning to look forward to returning to class. However, the numerous uncertainties, unanswered questions and unknowns about what school will be like this year, alongside the significant life changes and adjustments of the past 16 months, has…
By Michael Oberschneider, Psy.D. As a global pandemic, COVID-19 has had a profound impact on the world. To date, there have been close to 180 million total cases, and the virus has tragically taken the lives of over 3.8 million people. Regardless of one’s personal experience with COVID-19, for the past 15 months, the…
By Michael Oberschneider, Psy.D. “Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.” – Eleanor Roosevelt The Canadian…
By Michael Oberschneider, Psy.D. As a psychologist, I frequently work with children and teens involved in competitive team sports, and while there are certainly advantages to being a great athlete, there can also be a number of challenges. The Good The positives of youth sports are manifold. Research studies have shown that highly athletic children…
By Michael Oberschneider, Psy.D. “Yes Day!” is a recent movie that involves a mom and dad that usually say “no” to their children, but agree to a 24-hour period where their children get to do whatever they want (with some reasonable ground rules). The family goes on an adventure with all sorts of twists and…
By Michael Oberschneider, Psy.D. In these technology driven times, managing our children’s screen time is a daily – and sometimes moment to moment – parenting task. With the changes we’ve had to make societally as parents due to COVID-19, that task has certainly become even more imperative. Think about it. Many children are on screens…
By Michael Oberschneider, Psy.D. Dr. Mike, My husband has gone on an insane health kick that is causing us a lot of problems. I don’t know what to do. He’s lost his mind with diet and exercise; and it started in April after he started working from home because of COVID-19. He’s lost 65…
By Michael Oberschneider, Psy.D. On a societal and global level, COVID-19 has made this year a difficult one in so many ways. Worldwide, close to 1.7 million people have died, and close to 80,000,000 people have become sick with the virus. Statistics on COVID-19 are also imperfect given testing limitations and the lack of consideration…
Mindfulness is the concept of being 100 percent present in the moment, while accepting all aspects of what that moment is – without criticism, blame, or judgement. But with this presidential year being so contentious, and with such heated vitriol between the two major candidates and political parties, it hasn’t been easy to be mindful. …